Biology:Cabera

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Short description: Genus of moths

Cabera
Cabera exanthemata01.jpg
Cabera exanthemata
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Caberini
Genus: Cabera
Treitschke, 1825

Cabera is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1825.

Selected species

In alphabetical order:[1]

  • Cabera borealis (Hulst, 1896) – boreal cream
  • Cabera candidaria (Leech, 1897)
  • Cabera erythemaria Guenée, 1857 – yellow-dusted cream
  • Cabera exanthemata (Scopoli, 1763) – common wave
  • Cabera griseolimbata (Oberthür, 1879)
  • Cabera leptographa Wehrli, 1939
  • Cabera purus (Butler, 1878)
  • Cabera pusaria (Linnaeus, 1758) – common white wave
  • Cabera quadrifasciaria (Packard, 1873) – four-lined cream
  • Cabera schaefferi (Bremer, 1864)
  • Cabera variolaria Guenée, 1857 – the vestal

Taxonomy

Treitschke, a German lepidopterist, raised the genus in 1825; Cabera refers to Cabeiro, who was the daughter of Proteus ″the prophetic old man of the sea who kept changing his shape to avoid being caught and having to make prophesies″.[2]

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Cabera Treitschke, 1825". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/geometroidea/geometridae/ennominae/cabera/. Retrieved March 26, 2019. 
  2. Emmet, A Maitland (1991). The Scientific Names of the British Lepidoptera. Their History and Meaning. Colchester: Harley Books. p. 183. ISBN 0 946589 28 3. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1595379 entry